Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan of a course of lectures to be given by Professors I. N. Hollis h.'99, and R. W. Willson '73 and others will be announced. Some of these lectures will be illustrated and they will deal with both the popular and scientific side of aeronautics. With a series of lectures and with the assets in the way of machines and grounds which it possesses, the society hopes to be able to maintain the position which it has attained among the aeronautical clubs of the country...
...Yale players and coaches is due the greatest credit for the unheard of rapidity with which the team developed in the last two weeks of its season. They attacked and solved a problem which popular opinion deemed impossible...
...powers of discipline, his ability to establish and maintain an esprit de corps, his forcefulness, his insight, and finally his finally his common sense. We have had more than one case at Harvard, in the last twenty years, of the choice of an unsuitable captain mainly because he was popular--'a good fellow,' so to speak--one whom every one liked. It is a great mistake. She has made it conspicuously on two occasions, but it is written down that that thing must not happen again. If one can generalize about this question of choosing a captain, I should...
...either not at all or but a single course, and in 1907 he resigned his professorship in order to devote to writing whatever strength his ever weakening heart allowed. Throughout his academic career, with characteristic courage, he put out a series of papers filled with large learning, aggressive originality, popular sympathy, and delightful language. Through continual practice he had made himself the master of a style which so fascinated the reader by its clearness and pungency that he was able by its aid to break down the distinction between technical and popular appeal, and render abstract subjects intelligible...
...week. This innovation has met with unexpected success, and will in all probability ultimately do away with the large deficit which appears on each annual report charged to the restaurant. The management deserves high praise for this improvement, which is at the same time profitable and very popular...